This is not about which disease is actually the scariest, it is about the disease with the scariest-sounding name. For example - Yellow Fever: very scary disease, but not a scary sounding name. Plantar Fasciitis: not a very scary inflammation of the foot, but a terrifying-sounding name.

So I post a disease name, and you try to post a scarier-sounding one. If it is actually a scary disease, that's OK, but it doesn't have to be. It just has to sound scary. The winner shall be the first person that wins. Here we go:

Ankylosing Spondylitis

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Disclaimer: Anything I say on topics of Politics, Economics, Pychology, History, really anything not concerned with the natural sciences and mathematics and especially topics concerning human behavior and/or thoughts, that is not associated with a proper reference is pure speculation on my part.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Not likely. Peripheral neuropathy affects the peripheral nervous system, not the central nervous system. Any 'feeling stupid and slow' issues you may have are entirely your own problem and nothing to do with peripheral neuropathy. Sorry about that.

Sarcoptic Mange Mites.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for truly you have been touched by His Noodly Appendages, DavidH!

Let me break that down for you:Pneumono = lung, breathing thanks to the trees He created // ultra = He is truly above all His rivals // microscopic = akin to midgets, especially from His exalted, albeit inebriated, perspective // silico = sand, what creates the inviting beaches on islands favored by pirates burying treasure // volcanoconiosis = the condition of the beer volcano as it produces your favorite beverage in copious quantities.

I will honor Monkey in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.~Charles "Darwin" Dickens

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Had it. I came down with it about three weeks after a friend at university was hospitalised with tuberculosis. That was a nervous trip to the doctor, let me tell you...

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.